Astra Zoldnere
A Latvian film director, curator and publicist. She holds an MA degree in film directing from Baltic Film and Media School. She is the winner of the first ARS BALTICA Youth Film Competition in 2011. Her shorts “Treasures of the Sea” (2013) and “All My Dead” (2014) have been shown at many film festivals and have received several prizes. In her line of work, practical and theoretical aspects of film interact with each other.Filmography / Filmografia:
Blueberry Spirits / Melleņu gari (2016)
All My Dead / Trauslā sirds (2014)
Treasures of the Sea / Jūras nauda (2013)
The Fencer (2009)
Films
- "Melleņu gari" D: Astra Zoldnere, CI: Kaspars Brakis, ED: Astrida Konstante, LV 201612’40”
A poetic documentary about a Roma family that spends its summers in the Latvian woods, picking berries to make a living. While harvesting the fruit of the forest, they reflect on their identity as a group by sharing incredible ghost stories. Surrounded by existential questions on how to balance the future and the past, traditions and modern life, this metaphysical documentary points out their struggle for identity as a journey between night and day, and vice versa.
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